Improvement in bedstead-fastenings



W. H. ELLIOT.

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IMPROVEMENT IN BEDSTEAD-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 163,982. dated June 1,1875; application filed November 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known .that I, W. H. ELLIOT, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented an Improved Bedstead-Fastening, of which thefollowing is a specification:

My invention refers to bedstead-fastenings, made of wood, and its designis to meet some of the objections to them which have been developed bytheir manufacture and use. The nature of my invention consists in apeculiar construction of the tenon, and in the arrangement of it inrelation to the rail, which will be found fully set forth in thespecification and claim.

Figure 1 is an elevation of that side of the tenon which has upon it theflat projection a. Fig. 2 is the same in a reversed position, showingthat it may be used either edge up. Fig. 25 is a top view of the same.Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a tenon ot' the end of a rail and a cleatpartly broken away, to show the tenon in place, in the end of the rail.Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the opposite end of the rail, showing therail mortise or cut for the tenon. Fig. 6 is an end elevation of a rail,including the cleat, showing the entrance to the railmortise, and thedepth of the shoulder between the two flat depressions.

a is the body of the tenon, or that portion of it which occupies therail-mortise. a is a flat projection on the same. a is the head of thetenon, or that portion of it which occupies the post-mortise. c areshoulders, or projections on the head, which rest against the diagonalshoulders of the post-mortise. These shoulders, by their action, makethe fastening self-tightening in the usual way. d

is the side rail. 0 and e are two fiat depressionsforming therail-mortise; h, the cleat across the end of the rail which covers thetenon; t', a shoulder formed by the projection a; i, a shoulder in therail-mortise, formed by sinking the surface 0 below the surface 0, asrepresented by dotted lines, Fig. 6. 0 are recesses in the rail-mortise,made to let in the corners w of the flat projection 64. s are dottedlines, showing the position of the face of the post and end of .therail. In the construction of the tenon, the shoulders or projections 0,instead of being angularly arranged in relation to the shoulders on thebody of the tenon, are made parallel with them, and, also, parallel withboth ends of the tenon, and the necessary angularity of the shoulders c,to correspond with the usual diagonal shoulders of the post-mortise, isobtained by cutting the rail-mortise angularly in relation to the end ofthe rail.

Having described my invention, what I pose set forth.

W. H. ELLIOT. Witnesses D. LEWIS, O. L. Oseoon.

